Fitz (Tony Goldwyn) engages in his usual call to Olivia (Kerry Washington) and tells her he'll call her tomorrow. She then gets a call informing her that Pastor Drake, an activist in the civil rights and gay movement is missing. Quinn (Katie Lowes) staying with Olivia wants to know how she saved her, but Olivia won't answer that just yet. Olivia and the others find the Pastor dead and lying on top of a woman. They believe Anna (Elise Neal) is a call girl and Olivia sends Harrison (Columbus Short) to pay her off and get a non-disclosure agreement signed. She tells him to keep his money. Well that was a turnaround for the books since all she was doing was holding out for a larger settlement!
Olivia wants Huck (Guillermo Diaz) to take care of it and he reels off a list he'll need. However she tells him she wants him "moved" not "disposed of." Obviously his past is troubling him and especially what he's had to do in that past. They move him to his house and place him in bed. All his wife has to do is to call and say she found him like that. Olivia also tells her of his affair. Of course these events are close to Olivia's own personal life as she she too is a mistress and can never have the man she loves. Anna is a lawyer and Olivia visits her to talk her round. She was with him 15 years. Mellie (Bellamy Young) interrupts Fitz and he thinks she's here to just pick a fight but tells him she wanted to inform him of the Pastor's death.
Fitz is shown photo of genocide in Sudan which his advisers believe was taken a few days ago and has to seriously think about sending in the military, quoting what happened in Black Hawk Down. Huck finds Quinn isn't home and has taken a flight to Oakland, to see her father, Ray (John Diehl). Who is a bit upset she 's turned up. He also thinks she was responsible for killing those seven people in an explosion.
Anna wants $6 million and introduces Olivia to her son with the Pastor. Thus she has proof of his 'indiscretion,' She relays this to Nancy (Lorraine Touissant) the Pastor's wife and that his legacy will mean nothing if news of the affair is leaked. Harrison and Abby (Darby Stanchfield) tell Olivia that the coroner wants to conduct an autopsy on the Pastor as ordered by the US Attorney. She gets Fitz to "handle" it and tells him about the Pastor's affair to which he can only laugh, especially when she tells him how he died.
Fitz finds the photo is a fake and was instigated by the CIA director and Fitz makes him resign for it. Mellie pays her respects to Nancy who has taken a sedative and admits he had an affair. Mellie speaks to her privately but Olivia listens outside and she tells Nancy how she was his real partner, his wife and she was the one married to him. No one can take that from her. Again hitting Olivia close to home. The autopsy is called off and David (Joshua Molina) is furious but he wants to know how Olivia managed it. Later at home he pieces together news clippings and photos of how Olivia may have gotten to the Supreme Court Justice in Quinn's trial. Huck brings Quinn home cos there were eight people who died in the explosion and they brought her there and did things to her.
Huck turns up at AA in a desperate cry for help. Olivia doesn't give Anna anymore money but she wants to be at the funeral, where Fitz gives his eulogy. Nancy has to walk beside Anna. Mellie asks Fitz for forgiveness cos they loved each other once and she wants him to recall the girl that she was. Fitz calls again and Olivia doesn't pick up. Cyrus (Jeff Perry) says he can't have a baby cos he's already got one: Fitz. He must look after him so maybe he can do great things.
Olivia talks with Justice Verna Thornton (Debra Mooney) who helped Quinn and she knows the entire government can be brought down. Don't know about you, a line I know I often use, but this second season isn't really that appealing, maybe it's cos it's just a little slow to get off the ground and it's only episode 2. But there seems to be quite a bit of repetition in terms of Olivia and Fitz and Mellie and Fitz and I don't find Quinn's past so intriguing either.
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